RIP To Time Wasting - Wake Your Mind Up

The era of continuous schemming and planning is over. If you wish to move forward and do things that matter, then I'm sure you've realized you need to start doing important stuff and focusing on improvements in some areas of your life. The Pareto principle says that we get 80% result from 20% of the work we do. 80:20. Aim to move forward by putting work in to improve on these skills i'll list below.

Mastery of Communication Skills

Communication skills are huge factors of our success, whether it’s in business or relationships. Yet we spend little time developing them. Excellent communicators consistently end up in places of high authority and power. A few things you can start doing today are:

·        Improve on your listening skills

·        Smile more often.

·        Remember peoples name and call them by their name at least 3 times during communication.

Influence Abilities

You will need to develop very sharp influence skills. You can get anything you want in the world if only you know how to ask. Find a book that teaches on Negotiation and read it. Also you should learn these things:

·        Embedded commands.

·        Negotiating skills.

·        Rapport building

·        Playing the young and ambitious card.

Also remember to use peoples name more frequently during conversations, about 3-5 minutes or a often as you can without it being obvious you are famzing or ass-kising. Using someone name while talking to the person captures their attention and increases the chances of them going with what you are suggestion.

Be more social. Make new friends

At every opportunity, try to move out of your comfort zone and whatever happens when you do, make sure you “Go with the flow”. Try to do things you’ve never done.

Move around, interact, be socially free and authentic; realize people don’t really care about what you do. Increase your self-confidence; the more confident you become, the less you care so much what other people may think.

Smile more often. Be interested, open and curious, you can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Focus on what you can control.

Knowledge and Skill acquisition

While you getting your affairs in order, it's important you have an internalized understanding of information equity and you are knowledgeable about a wide variety of fascinating topics. Learn to consume information and acquire knowledge in the more efficient ways like listening to audio books, podcasts, video tutorials and documentary films. Practice skill leverage; as opposed to becoming a professional student who is always filling their head with new skills, learn the skill of leveraging the skills and strengths of others to accomplish your goals. Increase your ability to learn.

Dress sharp

Make sure you look good at all times if you want to influence people. Nobody wants to take orders from a wretched person. One thing you should never forget is: Dress the way you want to feel and not the way you feel. This is true especially if you want to make an impression. Don’t underestimate the empowering effect (especially for men) on your own mindset and over other people of dressing well. Regardless of how non-judgmental people claim to be, the way we dress when we meet people makes a big difference. People in suits and uniforms will always be figures of authority and command respect. Swag is for boys while Class is for men.

Cognitive Ability Development and Improved Memory

Cognition is the logical, reasoning faculty of the mind. This is the domain of mathematics and pattern recognition. The most important thing to understand is that your brain is like any other muscle in your body; it gets more powerful as you exercise it. Have you ever wondered why you keep repeating the same patterns in life?  It’s because our brains prefers to process new situations using existing synaptic patters (formed by your past experiences). If you want to experience new things in life you need to give you brain practice by building new synaptic patterns. I recommend searching for this book "How to Develop a Super Power Memory". Some ways to sharpen the brain include:

•      Try new things. You can learn to wirte computer programs, that helps to teach the brain how to think and solve problems.

•      Be a content creator instead of a content consumer.

•    Play cognitive games like Lumosity. The photo above is a diagram of my brain/lumosity performance index.

•      Learn a new language. Language acquisition challenges and causes cognitive development on a variety of conscious and unconscious levels. When you start learning a new language practice talking to yourself in your mind in that language.

Stress Management and Enhanced Situational Awareness

Mismanagement or excessive amounts of stress will definitely limit the level of fun and energy you have in your life. Stress is defined as the measure of change occurring in your life at any given time. Things like a new job, family, breaking up with a partner, not enough sleep etc cause stress. Make sure you are spending time daily on healthy stress management activities:

•      Working out.

•      Eating complete meals (Balanced diet).

•      Physical contact with other people (Massage/Sex).

•      Relaxing and sleeping.